This is a list of some notable alumni of King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and its various predecessor schools, arranged roughly chronologically. Sheffield Grammar School, later Sheffield Royal Grammar School (1604–1905) :John Balguy (1686–1748), divine and philosopher :John Roebuck FRS (1718–1794), inventor known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid Sir :Samuel Gillott (1838–1913), lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Melbourne :Walter Sugg (1860–1933), first-class cricketer :Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District :W. S. Senior (1876–1938), scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society :Edward Keble Chatterton (1878–1944), prolific author on maritime and naval themes Ludwig Glauert (1879–1963), paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator William Andrew MC (1884–1963), Anglican priest :Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885–1934), sculptor on the theme of war, best known for his war memorials Kenneth Kirk (1886–1954), Bishop of Oxford Sheffield Collegiate School (1836–1884) :Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), microscopist and geologist :George Rolleston FRS (1829–1881), physician and zoologist, Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford Sir :Nathaniel Creswick (1831–1917), footballer and solicitor, co-founded Sheffield FC Henry Jackson OM (1839–1921), classicist, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge :Henry Arnold Favell (1845–1896), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sheffield :George William Kinman (1862–1927), Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School Wesley College (1838–1905) Joseph Bennett (1829–1908), merchant and Liberal politician :Samuel Danks Waddy (1830–1902), politician and MP :Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden (1833–1912), Liberal Party politician and MP :Joseph Ruston (1835–1897), engineer, manufacturer, Liberal Party politician Sir :Swire Smith (1842–1918), woollen manufacturer, educationalist and Liberal Party politician :Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley (1850–1937), businessman and Liberal Party politician :Leonard Cockayne FRS (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist Frank Wilson (1859–1918), Premier of Western Australia :Arthur Neal (1862–1933), politician and Liberal MP Cecil Wilson (1862–1945), pacifist Labour Party MP King Edward VII School (1905–present) Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960), economic historian Hermann Glauert (1892–1934), aerodynamicist, who developed the Prandtl–Glauert transformation Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958), English painter Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) – FRS, Oxford Mathematician, and Savilian Professor of Geometry Geoffrey Gledhill Turner (1904–59), GC GM Frank Ellis (1905–2006) – eminent radiation oncologist Edward Linfoot (1905–82), Astronomer. Assistant Director of the Observatory, University of Cambridge 1948–70 Prof Albert Goodwin (1906–95), Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1953–69 Revd Hugh Turner, Anglican priest, theologian, and academic Sir Charles Husband CBE (1908–83), civil engineer, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1964–5, and Chairman of